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Mobile phone purchases continue to rise

Sep 14th at 15:35
14-09-2013 15:35:19+07:00

Mobile phone purchases continue to rise

The latest quarterly report on the Vietnamese market from the International Data Corporation (IDC) showed that 5.8 million mobile phones were delivered in the country in the second quarter of 2013.

Smart phone accounted for 32.7 per cent, two times higher than that in the same period last year.

The IDC statistics showed the rapid development of the Windows Phone operating system, which stood at the second place with 15.3 per cent in Q2/2013. This operating system increased 119 per cent, from 5.7 per cent in Q2/2012.

The Android operating system tops the Vietnamese market with 82.2 per cent, while Apple's iOS took the third spot with only 1.6 per cent.

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